@prideinlondon.bsky.social parade - 5 July 2025 🏳️🌈 @britishmuseum.bsky.social Desire, Love, Identity: LGBTQ+ histories - 20 June to 26 July 2025 🔍 Aesop Queer Library - 3 July to 6 July 2025 📚
Mayors Fund for London
@mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social
We are the Mayor’s Fund for London, a charity that champions opportunities for young Londoners facing the biggest barriers across the capital.
We’re halfway through Pride Month! We hope you are having a wonderful time, packed with celebration and learning about the LGBTQIA+ community’s contribution to equality and inclusion. 🥳
Thank you for all the amazing work you do!💚 We are glad your families enjoyed our food and recipe kits.🙌
Over Easter, we received brilliant Take & Make kits from @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social helping families cook tasty, healthy meals together at home.💚 A huge thank you for supporting our community with thoughtful, practical holiday support. #TakeAndMake #MayorFundForLondon #ChippingBarnetFoodbank
Today is our #YoungLondonersSummit 🙌 We're hosted by our long term partner Bloomberg. The Summit is the first significant opportunity to bring together young people with business, funders, policymakers, educators & communities to support the Growth Plan to deliver inclusive opportunity. 🤝
It's nearly #InternationalWomen'sDay! At MFL, we provide young Londoners: 📈Skills for life 🗣️Youth voice for social change 💚Community cohesion Recognizing girls are often excluded from these opportunities. 🎧 This #IWD, listen to our Youth Board's podcast on 'Girls in STEM': spoti.fi/43te7oN
It’s #NationalCareersWeek 💼 We provide industry insights and work experience to build skills that springboard young Londoners to explore careers they thought were unattainable. 📈 We hosted our own work experience students this half term.💚 Here’s what they have to say about their experience!📢
A really insightful meeting with @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social at @londonassembly.bsky.social Fantastic to hear from Chief Executive, Jim Minton and Basma El Hayani, Youth Board member about the challenges and opportunities ahead for the charity.
The first (of approximately 270) delicious meals made from the free Take & Make food kits we delivered over half term thanks to @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social Learn more: www.aston-mansfield.org.uk/supporting-f... #Newham #TakeandMake #FoodKit #HalfTerm #LittleManor
This looks delicious! We are so glad to see our Take & Make boxes in action! 💚
"N's Creamy macaroni bake thanks to you guys. All by herself from the Take & Make boxes. Tastes good. Thank you all for what you do for our community ❤" - a mum whose child cooked this yummy meal.
What an action-packed February half-term for young Londoners across the city! Here's a few things they have done with us: 📈Work experience placements 🗣️Youth consultations ⚽Physical and mental wellbeing activities 💡Life skills sessions 💼Career education workshops 🍽️Food boxes & recipe kits
Thank you so much to the @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social for providing us with 65 Take & Make food packs this half-term! They have been distributed to the kids (and families!) on our Youth Club playscheme. #TakeAndMake #HAF
🍽️Our Assistant Food Project Manager, Belle has been busy in the test kitchen creating new healthy and culturally inclusive meals for our recipe kits and meals boxes. 💚We're excited to be working across London, throughout February half-term providing food as a foundation and skills as a springboard.
We’re excited to support local families this February half-term by supplying 60 free food kits! The Take and Make Meal Kits come from our successful application to the @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social Learn more: aston-mansfield.org.uk/supporting-f... #Newham #FoodKit #LittleManor #Support #London
It’s #NationalApprenticeshipWeek! 💚This week brings together everyone passionate about apprenticeships to celebrate the benefits they bring. 🤔Over 18 and have been through an MFL programme? Sign up now and discover a range of apprenticeships! What are you waiting for? 👉 bit.ly/4hRX1Vz
Throughout the lifetime of a young Londoner, we’re here for them – providing: 🍽️Food as a foundation. 🎯Skills as a springboard. 📢Platforms as a bridge to power. Our new four-year strategy, launched last week, sets out how we will do this, from now through to 2028. Learn more: bit.ly/3WMYfJX
🚀 Today we launch our new strategy! 🚀 We are a charity that champions opportunities for young Londoners facing the biggest barriers. Our new four-year strategy sets out how we will do this, from now through to 2028. 🎥 Hear from our MFL Youth Board 👇 Read the strategy here 👉 bit.ly/3WDLalR
Lessons for young Londoners, that you won’t get in school! 📚 Season 2 of our youth-led podcast, The Intersect, was packed with top tips. From how young people can become financially literate to how they can stay safe on the streets of London.💡 Listen now🎧: bit.ly/40mSiUS
This year, we created 119 engagement opportunities in policy influencing, campaigning, fundraising, programmatic and creative activities for young Londoners. 🙌 Last week, we had the chance to celebrate these achievements! 🥳 We are looking forward to more exciting opportunities in 2025!💚
Had a wonderful evening at the winter celebration at @thenourishhub. Met so many amazing individuals from charities and groups across London who make an enormous difference to our city’s most vulnerable communities. Thanks to @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social for inviting me. It was an honour!
We’re celebrating our partnership with @alstom.bsky.social 🙌 As part of our Numbers @ Work programme we delivered a series of real-world maths workshops, at Alstom's Old Oak Common depot. Working with young people who are at risk of exclusion or studying in alternative provision. bit.ly/3VCuPNY
We're delighted to be taking part in @fundeverywhere.bsky.social’s Trusts & Major Donors conference! Ellen Smyth & Laura Hughes-Onslow will explore how fundraiser-led movements can influence change. Read more in our earlier blog 👉 buff.ly/3VnZkHQ, & find out about the event here 👉 buff.ly/40XC32w
Young people we work with tell us how they often feel unsafe in London. Here are some tips for young Londoners to stay safe.💡 Listen to episode 6 of The Intersect on 'Street Awareness' with our amazing guest Jerome Harvey-Agyei🙌. Link🎧: bit.ly/3ZbHVT4 #london #violence #safety #youngpeople
Violence in London impacts young people in many ways, from physical harm to the anxiety walking to school. In the latest episode of our youth-led podcast, host Ya'Eesh and Jerome Harvey-Agyei discuss the importance of safe spaces and collective action to reduce violence. Listen 👉 bit.ly/3ZbHVT4
It was great to be joined by our Patron @london.gov.uk and deputy mayor @debbieweekesb.bsky.social to help pack our Create and Make food boxes as part of #MitzvahDay💚
People from working class backgrounds make up just 17% of professional jobs in London. We're working to change this, providing young Londoners with skills as a springboard. Find out about our Employability and Skills work: bit.ly/3Z0EXRl
The Intersect is an exciting podcast created by our Youth Board. We invite special guests to have conversations about topics impacting the lives of young people, which they felt they weren’t taught at school. Check out Season 2 and hear all about “What School Didn’t teach us”! spoti.fi/4eFghnu
We are the largest provider of holiday food and activities in the capital, working with community partners in every borough. With 13 weeks away from school each year, we’re the bridge between term times that keeps young Londoners growing. We start with food as the foundation.
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